Above: "There goes Oregon rushing forward
like a bulldog with a bone in her teeth" (referring to the
foaming white bow wake). An American Naval Officer at the Battle
of Santiago. A copy of an original painting by Warren Sheppard
done in 1898 shortly after the War with Spain. The image depicts
the USS Oregon speeding after the Cristobal Colon.
The Oregon has just fired the right gun of her forward
thirteen inch turret at the fleeing Spanish vessel. The American
ship in the distance on the left of this image is presumably the
USS Texas.